Will We Ever Sign English Again

[sabret00the]

it's such a sad/mad question to ask but outside of SWP i just can't see that this team will ever truly have much Briton about it, up until summer i thought it was down to the lack of quality but then you look at it and we've let some big (abiltiy over name) players slip. Namely the two i won't shut up about; Defoe and Carrick, both were willing to come to Arsenal as squad players and now they've gone to ****e hart lane. i think these two were the best chances we've had for English in Arsenal for a little while, if i'm honest i can't see us adding another for like five years.

Don't get me wrong i love the team in any form but it would be nice to know that our team was atleast a little representative of the country in which it calls home.

 

[Sammer]

We have the two best english defenders. All the other great english players like Lampard, Rooney, Gerrard are just unaffordable.

 

[sabret00the]

Rooney is far from great, and Lampard is only Good. but i mean even if we stop thinking about the high end obvious signings, when was the last time we signed any english youth?

 

[niller]

I think Wenger is afraid to do another "Jeffers".

 

[TheGunner]

I think Wenger is afraid to do another "Jeffers".

Could be, but I think it is the case that we can not afford them. Apprantley I heard that we are after Ledley King.

I can not see us buying any forwards for a while now, as we have Van Persie, Reyes, Henry etc....Same as for our midfielders.

 

[patrick42uk]

ryan smith has a good chance of making it.

 

[Jinn]

There's no English players good enough or available enough. Carrick would have been handy though.

 

[sabret00the]

I think Wenger is afraid to do another "Jeffers".

Could be, but I think it is the case that we can not afford them. Apprantley I heard that we are after Ledley King.

I can not see us buying any forwards for a while now, as we have Van Persie, Reyes, Henry etc....Same as for our midfielders.

apparently the jeffers thing was a board thing rather than a Wenger thing.

does that mean that Wenger's never signed an englishman bar campbell?

 

[tbbosa]

The Wright-Phillips brothers, please. I hear Bradley Phillips is even better than Shaun Wright phillips. Why not get both of them at 15m!

 

[dsurg]

There's no English players good enough or available enough. Carrick would have been handy though.

Carrick could have been handy I do agree but truth be told I dont think he would start for Arsenal even if PV4 had left.

 

[TheGunner]

The Wright-Phillips brothers, please. I hear Bradely Phillips is even better than Shaun Wright phillips. Why not get both of them at 15m!

Shaun reckons that Bradley is a better finisher then himself.

Scarey hey!

 

[sabret00the]

There's no English players good enough or available enough. Carrick would have been handy though.

Carrick could have been handy I do agree but truth be told I dont think he would start for Arsenal even if PV4 had left.

he was always gonna be a squad player, he knew that and was happy with it.

 

[solthegunner]

Smith, hoyte, bentley are all u-21 players. Any english player$ that were about over the last 2 years and might have made it all went to chavski.

Wenger was under pressure to buy english players and bought two players that were over priced and ****.....its probably not the best introduction to the market.

 

[Soler]

The Wright-Phillips brothers, please. I hear Bradely Phillips is even better than Shaun Wright phillips. Why not get both of them at 15m!

Two completely different players all together.

 

[tbbosa]

The Wright-Phillips brothers, please. I hear Bradley Phillips is even better than Shaun Wright phillips. Why not get both of them at 15m!

Two completely different players all together.

So does that mean we do not need players who are different or what?... I though that would be good since they would not compete with each other?
I have not understood your point as usual....just like the so many other posts of yours!

 

[koivu]

I couldn't care less where our players come from, as long as they are quality.

 

[Sol man]

It Would be nice to have some english players but they are just too expensive. Why spend more money on a player becasue he is english when you could find a player just as good or better abroad at a cheaper price.

 

[Soler]

The Wright-Phillips brothers, please. I hear Bradley Phillips is even better than Shaun Wright phillips. Why not get both of them at 15m!

Two completely different players all together.

So does that mean we do not need players who are different or what?... I though that would be good since they would not compete with each other?

How can you say BWP (a larger, stronger, striker) is a better player than SWP (smaller, quicker, winger) when they are absolutely nothing a like? They play different different positions, have different attributes and bare no resemblance to each other playing wise. It's like saying a winger is a better player than a DM; they can't be compared whatsoever.

I have not understood your point as usual....just like the so many other posts of yours!

You toe a very fine line as it is, insulting a moderator's probably not the best thing you should do, oui?

 

[sanyasi]

You toe a very fine line as it is, insulting a moderator's probably not the best thing you should do, oui?

So just because you are moderator makes you above question? he made a statement about the quality of your postings which is quite justified, and jsut because you are a mod doesnt mean that you can flex your muscles around.
ever since you became a mod youve become a touch bigheaded methinks.
why dont you be a little nicer, like USArsenal or somebody like that? stop throwing your weight around for once

 

[Guns and Arses]

There are a few points that I can make:

1. We can say that there are already a number of English players in the Arsenal youth team; but
2. Many of them do not make it to the first team, namely Upson, Gray, Thomas, Bentley....
3. Jeffers
4. We're not that rich to afford players like Gerrard, Lampard or even Wright-Phillips

But I hope we can have King as Campbell's successor in the position. Bentley looks to be heading somewhere else next season, so is Pennant. I do think that Hoyte can make it, either in CB or RB.